Wednesday 08 September 2010
The company surpassed 5,000 customers in APAC in its first fiscal quarter of 2010, including industry leaders Crocs, Pacnet, Ricoh and more. Salesforce.com cloud computing applications, including the Sales Cloud and the Service Cloud, as well as the Force.com platform for developing and deploying custom cloud applications, allow customers to focus on managing their businesses - rather than managing the cost and complexity associated with software and hardware infrastructure. Asia-Pacific is our fastest growing market, and there has never been a better time for enterprise cloud computing,” said Marc Benioff, chairman and CEO, salesforce.com. “Our new Singapore data center represents continued investment in our global real-time infrastructure to accelerate customer success with cloud computing worldwide.
SaaS is moving beyond its roots in customer relationship management (CRM) into every area of the enterprise, including platforms for application development,” said Dane Anderson, CEO of Springboard Research. “With all segments of the cloud computing market growing, we are seeing applications and platforms being adopted across the board by enterprises in the region and, perhaps most importantly, the enterprises we interview are very satisfied.
Along with its two North American data centres, the company has launched a new facility in Singapore, which includes a new data centre as well as a network operations centre. The new Singapore facility allows the company to meet the service demands of its rapidly growing international customer base as well as extend the capacity, redundancy and scalability of its infrastructure,” the company said. Supporting the data centre infrastructure will be a new NOC headquartered in Singapore. The NOC enables 24×7, follow-the-sun monitoring of the company’s data centres in North America and Singapore. The company has more than 59,300 customers of all sizes, industries and geographies in its customer base as of 30 April 2009.
According to salesforce.com’s earnings report for the first quarter of fiscal 2010, the company registered 36% revenue growth in the Asia Pacific compared to the same period a year earlier. Its customers in the region now numbered more than 5,000 and include AAPT, Acer, Amcor, CGU Insurance, Challenger Financial Services, Crocs, Datacraft, Flight Centre, Hang Seng Bank, Mizuho Private Wealth Management, Ottagi, Pacnet, Ramco, Ricoh, SPH Search, VSNL and Telecom New Zealand. SaaS is moving beyond its roots in customer relationship management (CRM) into every area of the enterprise, including platforms for application development,” said Dane Anderson, CEO of Springboard Research.
